Elders & Inspirations
along with the flora & fauna of the lands I have lived with, I have had the honor of learning from a handful of living human elders with extensive training and experience in their respective fields:
Ancestral Lineage Healing: Dr. Daniel Foor - Ancestral Medicine
Kristen Houser - Fauna Speak
The Way of Radical Compassion: Dr. Frank Rogers with Center for Engaged Compassion
Marysia Miernowska - School of the Sacred Wild
Lana Smithner with Death Me Dying Tree
The Art of Death Midwifery & Funeral Celebrant Training: Olivia Bareham with Sacred Crossings
Ritual Creation & Facilitation: Dr. Daniel Foor, Olivia Bareham, Morrighan Bigelow
Medicare/National Hospice & Palliative Care Recognized Training: The Twilight Brigade- Compassion in Action (Death & dying support for veterans)
Dying Consciously & Sacred Earth Medicine Path: Tomas Bostrom & Celia Blackwood
Reiki I & II with Rose De Dan: A Wild Way to Heal - Reiki & Shamanic Healing
Other human elders who have had a substantial influence on my approach to this work, and continue to be a wellspring of inspiration:
Stephen Jenkinson, Orphan Wisdom
Martin Prechtel, Bolad's Kitchen
Some of my ancestors that I am building relationship with through ancestral lineage healing:
The furred elders and inspirations who have guided me through the years:
Exhibit A
… of Furry Inspiration
“We become religious,
then we turn from it,
then we are in need and maybe we turn back.
We turn to making money,
then we turn to the moral life,
then we think about money again.
We meet wonderful people, but lose them in our busyness.
We’re, as the saying goes, all over the place.
Steadfastness, it seems,
is more about dogs than about us.
One of the reasons we love them so much.”
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
“I know. I know.
they (...) have different
needs and
concerns.
but I watch and learn from them.
I like the little they know,
which is so
much.
they complain but never
worry.
they walk with a surprising dignity.
they sleep with a direct simplicity that
humans just can’t
understand.
their eyes are more
beautiful than our eyes.
and they can sleep 20 hours
a day
without
hesitation or
remorse.
when I am feeling
low
all I have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns.
I study these
creatures.
they are my
teachers.”
Exhibit D
Exhibit E